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Quotes from GraceLand — Chris Abani

born 1966 Nigeria

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"This is the kola nut. This seed is a star. This star is life. This star is us".

GraceLand (2004)

He stared at the city, half slum, half paradise. How could a place be so ugly and violent yet beautiful at the same time? he wondered. He hadn’t known about the poverty and violence of Lagos until he arrived. It was as if people conspired with the city to weave a web of silence around its unsavoury parts.

GraceLand (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chris Abani (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.